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Link library limit exceeded on windows VS2019

I hit this linking error compiling paraview:

lib\vtkm_filter-pv5.8.lib : fatal error LNK1248: image size (1073B2AA2) exceeds maximum allowable size (FFFFFFFF)

Specifically, my config:

  • VS2019 v16.4.3
  • RelWithDebInfo build
  • VTK_SMP_IMPLEMENTATION_TYPE set to TBB, so vtk-m TBB is enabled.

@robertmaynard found this: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/332991/static-lib-4gb-file-size-limit-lnk1248-image-size.html which indicates a fundamental 4 GB limit in MS lib format. Dashboard release builds are only ~1.2GB.